Attachment for mowing-machines



(No Model.)

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r`Patented Mar. 1 5, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATgpTROFFice.

ATTACHMENT FOR MOWINGFMACHNES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,351I dated March15, 1887.

Application filed October i8, 1886. Serial No. 216,539. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern/ y Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. Fox, acitizen of the United States, residing at Short Creek, in the county ofHarrison and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Attachments for Mowing- Machines; and I do'declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the inven-'tion, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters and iigures of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to cutting apparatus for harvesting and mowingmachines, and has for its object to obviate and prevent any verticalmovement of the cutter-sections and hold them down upon the knifeportion of the guard-fingers.

The improvement consists in the novel features hereinafter more fullydescribed, claimed, andshown in the annexed drawings, in which-- Figurel is a plan view of a cutting apparatus provided with my improvements.Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line a: x of Fig. l, and Fig. 3 is asectional view on the line yy of Fig. l.

The finger-bar A, the cutter-bar B, and the cutter-sections C are oldand of well-known construction. The guard ngers D are' of usualarrangement and have the ordinary slot, D', forming the overhangi ngguard d, through which the cutters work in the well-known manner.

In the following description I do not wish to be understood as limitingmyself to having the rear ends of all the guards turned down and bearingupon the cutter-sections, as in practice-it has been found sufficient ifonly a few are so constructed and located at intervals throughout thelength of the cutter-bar, and for this reason in Fig. 1 two of theguards only are shown as having their rear ends turned down.

The vital part of my invention consists in having the rear end of theguard d bent down so as to bear upon the top of the cutters and holdthem at all times upon the cutting-face d of said fingers and in thekeepers E, which are located intermediate the fingers. These keepershave a portion extended over the cuttersections and a portion secured tothe finger-bar. The end of that portion extended over the cutter is bentdown and bears upon said cutter and holds it down upon the cutting-faced of the finger. The portion secured to the fingerbar is expandedlaterally, so as toobtain a broad bearing and afford a ready means forfirmly securing it in position. A portion, e, depending from the rearend of that portion of the keeper extending over the cutter, bears uponsaid cutter near its rear edge and'holds the cutter-bar against verticaldisplacement. From this it will be seen that the keeper bears upon thecutter at two pointsthe one in front of the cutter-bar and the otherdirectly over the same. The keepers are arranged relative to thefingers, so that the one or the other willat all times act 'upon thecutter and hold it down upon the cutting-face of the finger andpreventany vertical play thereof. By this arrangement the cutters willbe held close down to the lower side of the cuttingface of the guard orfingers, which face will be kept at and true much longer than by anymeans heretofore devised.

These improvements can be applied to any cutting apparatus in commonuse, and there may be as many of the keepers and guards with the ends oftheir overhanging portion bent down as occasion may require.

Additional keepers F and Fv are provided and located on each side of thekeeper E.'

The keeper F overlaps the rear portion of the cutter-sections, and thekeeper F extends to a point about midway between lines drawn through theends of the keepers E and F parallel with the rear edge of thecutter-bar. By this arrangement of keepers the cutter-sections will beheld down by a pressure exerted from above at the rear and near thefront ends of each section and by a pressure intermediate these points.The keeper E is located intermediate between two guard ngers,having therear ends of the guards bent down, and the bent ends of the guards andthe keeper are substantially in line, as shown, so that thecutter-sectin will be held down at each edge when about to pass frombeneath one guard 0r when in the act of passing beneath the other ers Fand F, located one upon each side ofthe guard and moving part Waybeneaththe same, keeper E and bearing upon the cutters at dil'- as will bereadily appreciated. ferent points in the length thereof, substan-Havingthus described myinvention, what I tially as and for the purposeset forth. 5 claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, In testimonywhereof I afx my signatu rein 15 is presence of two Witnesses.

The combination7 with the ngenbar and VILLIAM S. FOX. the cuttelhar, ofthe keeper E, fixed to the XVituesses: finger-bar and bearing upon thecutters near AMON LEMMON,

1o the front and rear edges thereof, and the keep- GEORGE M. GAULT.

